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ANTON Composition System

ANTON is an Answer Set Programming based composition system that is
being developed in Bath and Glamorgan. It is a rule-based system that
encodes the rules of Johann Joseph Fux.

The code is available elsewhere; here we present the first pieces
composed by Anton, his Opus 1 Twenty Short Pieces. It is
available
as WAV, OGG, Score,
and Csound input.

The second example is a collection of short melodic fragments in the
Dorian mode composed by Anton. The audio can be found
as WAV, OGG, Score,
and Csound input.

>Bibliography

Georg Boenn, Martin Brain, Marina De Vos and John ffitchAnton: Answer Set Programming in the Service of Music
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic
Reasoning. pp85-93, Sept 2008, University of New South Wales &
Tech report UNSW-CSE-TR-0819.

Georg Boenn, Martin Brain, Marina De Vos and John ffitchAutomatic Composition of Melodic and Harmonic Music by Answer Set
Programming
International Conference on Logic Programming, Dec 2008